The Homegrown Doula

04/30/2024

You are invited to take part in our FIRST EVER Toddler Trot!! We had to pivot as we had no one register for the Baby Crawl this year. We had already purchased the prizes and prepared, so we are pivoting and we have created a fun new event at the fair this year!!

The Toddler Trot Obstacle Course!!

May 1 @ 4pm. Ages walking to 26 months. Parent can hold hand to guide them along. Balance beam, tunnel crawl and ball throw/drop.

Event will take approx 20-30 minutes total. Each child receives a small prize, and then we have multiple grand prize draws:
Bubble machine with refills
Boat floaty & beach towel
Cozy coup car
These grand prizes will be drawn at random. There is no winner or loser, just a few toddlers playing in an obstacle course.

Please use the sign up link to register a spot today, they are filling FAST! Registration CLOSES on MONDAY, APRIL 29 >>> https://signup.com/go/JiPMUwc

04/19/2024

For most, vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC) carries lower risks than a repeat cesarean.

Every pregnancy is different and it is important to evaluate your situation carefully with a trusted healthcare provider.

Often when discussing a VBAC, uterine rupture is a specific risk mentioned. Uterine rupture occurs when there is a separation of the uterine wall. Having your uterus rupture can be life-threatening and serious, however, the risk of uterine rupture occurring is very rare, affecting less than 1% of those laboring after cesarean with a low transverse incision.

It is important for a birthing person to be well-educated and informed before making the choice to VBAC or to have a repeat cesarean.

04/04/2024

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04/02/2024

Bonnets are back!

Striped and Whale pattern are swimwear style and UPF 50+ ☀️

Available in baby or toddler size

🦋 butterfly pattern only available in baby size

$30 each

03/23/2024

Just over here bringing wisdom, holding space, and encouraging my sheep to birth their lambs feeling empowered, loved, and supported 😉 🐑 🤎

03/05/2024

✨Earth Mama Product Restock with some favorites and some new products! ✨ order is on the way!

New faves:
🌻perineal spray
🌱herbal sitz bath
🪻lavender baby lotion
🪻lavender baby wash

Tried and true faves:
🌺 raspberry leaf tea
🍑 diaper balm
💕nipple butter
🍊 sweet orange baby wash

I especially love the baby wash - it comes out foam and a little goes a long way, it’s gentle and the scent is mild, and it does not leave your baby slippery like other soaps!

01/14/2024

⭐️ Available Earth Mama products: Ni**le Butter and Sweet Orange Baby Wash. This is the last of my inventory before re-order!

⭐️ Ni**le butter $15
⭐️ Baby wash $12

⭐️ I can order diaper balm, baby face balm, raspberry leaf tea, baby wash, soothing peri spray, body oil for baby and mama. If there’s anything you would like me to get in for you let me know!

⭐️ Delivery in Provost available

10/26/2023

🍎 NUTRITION 🍏

Prevent vitamin and mineral deficiencies, help yourself feel energized, and keep your body systems functioning well.

Questions about Iron deficiency come up a lot from my clients. Here’s a few tips that will help you get the iron you need in your diet:

⭐️ cook on a cast iron pan 🥘
⭐️ eat food rich in Vitamin C to help you absorb iron in your diet 🥦 🍅 🍊 🍓 🫑
⭐️ do not drink milk (or eat high calcium foods) with iron supplements or iron rich foods, wait one hour ⏰ 🥛
⭐️ Tannins in coffee and tea can prevent you from absorbing iron, wait one hour after eating iron rich foods or taking supplements ⏰ ☕️
⭐️ Most know that meat is a great source of iron but also try to add other iron rich foods like: almond butter, legumes/lentils/beans, tomato purée, spinach, dark leafy greens like kale, cereals fortified with iron like oatmeal, pumpkin or sesame seeds, beets and beet tops

If you have questions about healthy eating during pregnancy there is an excellent free class online through Birth and Babies

https://birthandbabies.com/registration/

Also, you can talk to a Dietician through your local Community Health Centre if you have specific questions related to your nutrition.

Sources:
See link below for an article on healthy eating in pregnancy.
Article “Iron Deficiency Anemia and You” from Association of Ontario Midwives

Making nutritious choices is especially important while you are pregnant. Eating well gives your baby the nutrients they need to grow and develop. It also helps lower your risk of having health problems such as low iron or high blood pressure. Here are answers to some common questions about eatin...

10/12/2023

When you’re preparing for baby’s arrival, consider checking out spinning babies and their recommendations to promote optimal baby position before and during labor. The position of the baby plays such a massive role in how labor can go, knowing how to encourage baby into good position is so important! My favourite recommendation to all my mamas is the spinning babies daily exercises, check them out on their website!

The Left Occiput Anterior position has the reputation of being the best fetal position. But is it? LOA is just one of the best positions to help the baby be in the smallest diameter to fit the pelvis. The LOA baby’s back is on the birth giver’s left side, and faces towards their back.

A good fetal position aims the baby’s crown onto the cervix to help it open more easily and to allow for labor to progress more smoothly. When babies start labor with the back of the head towards the anterior (front), less rotation is required to happen. Rotation plays a very important role in birth.

The ideal, or optimal, fetal position is a flexed baby. A flexed baby can use their spine, back and shoulder muscles to help themselves be born. Flexed baby’s bodies are lined up to make their kicks at the top of the womb (fundus) be more effective in moving them down through the pelvis.

Spinning Babies® helps baby get into position for birth. For every fetal position, there are techniques and methods that we encourage in order to facilitate movement and rotation.

There is much more regarding baby positions. You can read about each one at the link: https://www.spinningbabies.com/pregnancy-birth/baby-position/

10/11/2023

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Sending love to all the families that have experienced loss. There are no words to make the pain subside, only space can be held to navigate a path toward healing. Doulas support all kinds of pregnancy and fertility journeys, even the ones that end unexpectedly.

09/19/2023

Do I really need a doula at my birth?

A baby will come out either way, it’s true. However, studies show you are likely to feel better about yourself, your baby, and your abilities in parenting after birth because they:

- Stay with you for the whole labor
- Know ways to help you feel more comfortable with less fear
- Offer unbiased emotional, mental, and physical support
- Listen and help communicate your desires in collaborative ways
- Positively affect the entire birth team's synergy and effectiveness
- Have been studied and shown to reduce cesareans while reducing length of labor and the ratings of labor pain

Are you having a doula at your birth?

07/23/2022

It was a pleasure working with this family, who brought their little boy into the world exactly the way they wanted to! Their efforts preparing, researching, and planning this birth showed when it was time to put all the practice to work!

Your doula loves you Lincoln!

07/14/2022

So many breastfeeding myths out there! Here are my least favourite three 🚩🚩🚩

Many parents start breastfeeding but do not continue past the first few weeks. Having a good network of people who foster and support your breastfeeding goals is essential! It is natural to doubt your abilities to breastfeed, have challenges, and wonder if you are doing it right in those first few days and weeks. Comments from others can plant seeds of doubt like “he’s nursing again?’, “your milk hasn’t come in yet?”, “wouldn’t it be easier to just give a bottle?”. Though usually well intentioned, these comments are largely unsupportive to new breastfeeding parents, and can cause feelings of insecurity in their breastfeeding abilities.

Supporting breastfeeding looks like:

⭐️ “can I refill your water or get you something to drink?” ⭐️“can I make you a meal or snack?”
⭐️“you are working hard to feed your baby and doing a great job!”
⭐️“he wants to nurse again, that’s a great sign he is healthy and doing well, don’t get up I’ll bring him to you”.

If you are concerned or have questions seek help right away. There are fantastic breastfeeding resources in our area including lactation consultants, public health nurses, doctors, and support groups. Try to educate yourself early on about normal newborn behaviour and breastfeeding if this is your goal for feeding your baby.

Were/are you well supported in your breastfeeding goals? Anything you wish you would have known when you were struggling?

06/10/2022

I had the pleasure of working with this amazing couple! To say this mama is fierce is an understatement, she was faced with a lot of hard choices and powered through. So proud of the Johnson family!

Your doula loves you Madden!

06/06/2022

Earth Mama’s Free Birth Plan asks the birth preparedness questions you might be too tired, excited or overwhelmed to ask. It was created to help guide your thinking as you assemble your birth team, whether you prefer a natural, non-medicated birth or a medically assisted (epidural) delivery. Earth...

05/12/2022

Ok, I can’t even with these bonnets from ! They are so adorable and guess what? I’m going to have some very soon for purchase!

Perfect for summer! And I know from experience these style bonnets are the absolute best to protect the little ones from the sun, and they don’t fall off easily!

Sizes baby 0-6m and toddler 6-24m available in these patterns.

I’ll have very small quantities so if you are interested let me know! PM for more details.

05/10/2022

Have you heard of Earth Mama?

If you know me I’m not much of a skin or health product gal. I tend to keep it simple, and most of my people know my home remedy suggestions usually consist of breast milk or coconut oil lol But I do love Earth Mama Organics products. I stumbled upon them when I was using cloth diapers and needed a diaper balm that was zinc free. And this diaper balm is the bomb 💣 it smells great, there’s no thick residue, you can tell it calms the skin right away and a little goes a loooong way!

So long story short I like the products so much I’m selling them now. These are a few I’ll be carrying in small quantities to start out so if you’re interested let me know!

🌱 🌺 🍃

05/08/2022

Happy Mother’s Day!

“Life doesn’t come with a manual, it comes with a Mother”

Honouring all the different Mothers out there, in all their forms, thank you for being everything your families need, and more. For giving when it’s hard and loving no matter what 💕